[CTN] CTN Seminar: Randy McIntosh (Baycrest Centre), 3:30 Tuesday Jan 21 in E5 6111

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder about the talk today. Hope to see you there.

Bryan

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 11:07 AM Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Welcome back! Please join us for the next CTN seminar with Randy McIntosh
> (Baycrest Centre / University of Toronto). Talk details are below.
>
> Bryan
>
> Flow and manifolds in cognition and neural networks
> Randy McIntosh, Baycrest Centre
> 3:30 Tuesday Jan 21 E5 6111
>
> Our experience is elaborate, where our perceptions are embellished by
> memories and emotions, and driven by predictions. We have developed a
> quantitative framework that makes the explicit link between the elaborate
> temporal evolution of the brain networks and the accompanying evolution of
> the mental streams. We posit that the coordination underlying experience
> can be understood by considering neural processes as flows depicting system
> interactions. The flows occur on relatively low-dimensional manifolds,
> which constrain the landscape of possible functional configurations –
> Structured Flows on Manifolds (SFM). The attraction of the SFM framework is
> that the same mathematical formulation can be used to quantify the flows
> and manifolds for the cognitive architecture as for the neural dynamics.
> The potential for new configurations reflects the adaptive nature of the
> brain and higher cognitive function. This “hidden repertoire” is at the
> heart of what makes our experiences special, where the richness comes
> precisely because of what is happening and also of what possibly could
> happen.
>
>
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